Given how successful free gas and grocery promotions have become as the world has fallen on economic hard times, you might be thinking on doing one of these promotions for your own business. You may quickly discover, however, that there are lots of redemption companies out there who will sell you the free gas and grocery redemption certificates and handle the processing for you. How do you know which company to buy from? What should you be looking for in these companies? How does one know how to shop for free gas and grocery certificates? This article will guide you through what to look for in a company, and what services might be worth paying a premium for.

Don’t be driven by the lowest price alone. There are many other important service factors to consider before choosing a supplier for your free gas and grocery certificates. The two main areas to examine are how easy it is for the customer to redeem the certificates, and how flexible the company is in working with you.

First and foremost, carefully examine the company’s process for customers to redeem their free gas and grocery certificates. Find the company that offers the simplest and easiest method for certificate redemption, with the fewest hoops the customer has to jump through. It is important to do the best you can to make sure your customers do indeed get the free stuff that motivated them to make a large purchase of your merchandise in the first place. Why? Because if they have difficultly collecting their free gas and groceries—and especially if they aren’t able to collect the full amount of their certificate—they’ll feel cheated, scammed, and complain about you to their friends. The last thing you want your company to have is a reputation for failing to deliver on promises and cheating customers.

Some redemption company’s certificates can only be used at certain stores, which may irritate some customers. Other certificates expire in unreasonable amounts of time. Some enforce strict deadlines that if the customer fails to meet, the certificate is forfeit. These are just some of the many terms, conditions, restrictions, and red tape some companies use in an attempt to prevent the customer from collecting the full amount. The customer, naturally, we be frustrated with the redemption company, but take their anger out on you for offering them a bum card.

When shopping for a redemption company to buy certificates from, look for one that has a relatively simple and easy process for collecting the free goods. Look for a company that lets the customer use the certificate at whatever store they want, issues cards that don’t expire, either reasonable or no activation deadlines, and comb the rules carefully and make sure there are no loopholes though which a customer’s certificate may be forfeited altogether.

As for your end, look for a company that’s flexible in working with you. You probably won’t find a redemption company that will give you one free trial certificate, or let you purchase only five or ten. Redemption companies make their profits by selling free gas and grocery cards in bulk. Some companies, however, offer amounts of certificates as low as 25, which provides you with an inexpensive way to do a “trial run” to see if this type of promotion works for your company. Look for redemption companies that offer cheaper per-certificate prices if you buy larger quantities.

Look for redemption companies that offer a wide variety of certificate amounts. The most common are amounts of $50, $100, $150, $250, $300, $450, and $500. Another benefit to look for is a company that will let you mix and match the card amounts in your bulk purchase. Finally, another great bonus to look for is a redemption company that will let you put your company logo on the free gas and grocery certificates. This simple thing can help you turn each certificate into a free advertisement reminding the customer that your company provided them with all that free stuff.

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
http://incentivebasedpromotions.com/ (Product Site)
http://fundraisingandincentives.com/ (Non-Profit Certificates)
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Do you want to attract new customers to your business? Have you tried the traditional methods of flyers and newspaper advertisements? While these may be somewhat effective, what if you could find a way to get new customers to come to you by spending pennies on the dollar? With the struggling economy, everyone is trying to find a way to get new customers generated, while retaining the customers they have. We have a solution the will use the bad economy to get new customers!

Everyone has to do two things that can’t be avoided. They must put the nozzle in the tank, and food on the table. Use the increasing cost of groceries and fuel to get new customers and reward the customers you have – and keep them coming back! How do you do this? With our program, you offer them an incentive that no one can refuse, and one that will benefit 100% of your customers. Have you found a program that will appeal to 100% of the population yet? We have the answer.

Offer your customers an incentive program that will give them a gas or grocery certificate, just for spending money with your company. With our certificates, you purchase them for literally pennies on the dollar and offer them to your customers. With this program, you can see an increase in sales of up to 30%. And on top of this, it is guaranteed to work! Just consider the results others have seen:

One car dealership purchased 700 gas certificates as an incentive to test drive vehicles. In a direct mail advertisement combined with a simple newspaper ad, and the dealership had people lined up to test drive vehicles. This has worked so well, this dealership now orders more than 5,000 per month.

You aren’t limited to industry specific businesses. ANYONE can use these certificates as an incentive, including retail locations, banks, contractors, home sales, real estate, churches, medical offices, and more. There is no limit to this.

Purchase these certificates with our current introductory offer of 25 certificates. Please contact us for more information on pricing. Can you imagine this kind of traffic to your business and how this will excite your employees? .  So contact us to provide your customers with a great product from you and an incentive to go with it.

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
http://incentivebasedpromotions.com/ (Product Site)
http://fundraisingandincentives.com/ (Non-Profit Certificates)
http://fundraisingandtravel.com/ (Non-Profit TravelBook)
w-612-377-5262
Fax-480-304-9095
michaelg@freegrocerycenters.com

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